Where: Aragon, Spain (41.7° N, 1.8° W: paleocoordinates 55.2° S, 110.3° E)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Pardailhania hispida trilobite zone, Murero Formation, Menevian (504.5 - 499.5 Ma)
• middle Caesaraugustan, Cambrian Series 3, Stage 5. Drumian. Zamora & Smith (2011) refine this to Pardailhania multispinosa zone from Badulesia granieri–Pairdailhania multispinosa zones.
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; green shale and carbonate
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: cast, mold/impression
Primary reference: S. Zamora, I. A. Rahman, and A. B. Smith. 2013. The ontogeny of Cinctans (stem-group Echinodermata) as revealed by a new genus, Graciacystis, from the middle Cambrian of Spain. Palaeontology 56(Part 2):399-410 [W. Kiessling/M. Krause]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 196974: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 15.10.2018
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Cincta | |
Graciacystis ambigua Zamora et al. 2013 | |
Stylophora | |
Ctenocystoidea | |
Courtessolea sp. DomÃnguez-Alonso 1999 | |
Trilobita | |
Pardailhania hispida Thoral 1935 trilobite |